Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

When a comment is submitted, the contents of the comment, along with the author details filled in, and the authors IP address is submitted to Akismet.Akismet is a service used to ensure spam is identified and prevented on this site. See the privacy

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to improve the performance and user experience of the site. Some cookies may be required for some features of the site to work, and will be outlined below.

Targeted cookies are used for:– Let you share and like content– Send information to other websites to provide targeted advertisements

You can read more about cookies and how they are used at www.aboutcookies.org or by using the help feature in your browser.

Google Analytics

We utilize Google Analytics to measure the amount of visitors to our site, which pages are more popular than others, how long each page is viewed for, what features are popular and similar information.

This information is anonymized to such a degree that we are able to using Google Analytics’ tools, and is only used to give an overall impression. We can not identify individuals using this information.

Jetpack

Visits to pages and articles, which links are clicked, as well as what search terms are used and your country of origin are collected via Jetpack.

When the above mentioned information is gathered, some associated data is also collected, such as: The visitors IP address, browser versions, available languages and what pages referred you to our site.

If you are a WordPress.com user, and are logged in to their services, your username and user-id may also be recorded.

Texts

This website displays texts using fonts provided by Google Fonts. When these fonts are loaded there is, to the best of our knowledge, no personal data collected.

Content

We may include external content such as videos, images, texts or other rich embedded media from other sites. Embedded content like this treats the viewer as if they had visited the embedded site directly and it may occur that these sites then add cookies or gather analytical information about the views/visits.

Although we do not currently allow user registrations on the site, we have in the past and may do so in the future.

If you do have an account with us, you may send us an email requesting either an export of any information we have, or the deletion of any such information.

We facilitate the use of HTTPS connections to our website for all visitors whenever technically possible.

We also audit the extensions used on our site on a regular basis to ensure no unexpected data collection is introduced, and disclose any data collection in our privacy policy to provide transparency for our users.